Tree PoseStand tall with your arms down at your sidesBring your right foot up onto your left thighThe left leg should be straight and you should be balancedAfter finding your balance, breathe in and raise your arms over your head and bring your palms together

How to: Refresh with Yoga

Yoga, an exercise that has been used for thousands of years, is one way that aerobics instructor Shannon Powers has been working to improve her body and mind for more than 20 years.



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What’s your status?

Here, you can explore the different types of dating styles of Ball State students and compare their similarities and differences. Which dating type are you?


Srinivasam no longer has to go through dialysis treatment. He recalls dialysis as being long hours of sitting in a room with strangers while he watched Ted Talks.
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Finding the Perfect Match

Husband. Father. Grandfather. Professor. Diabetic. All these words describe Srinivasan Sundaram, a Ball State finance professor, who has been diabetic for 33 years. In his first semester teaching at Ball State in 1991, he had a triple bypass, an open-heart surgery in which blood vessels are taken from one part of a person’s body and transferred to heart vessels to prevent blockage. Sundaram, who suffered kidney failure, underwent dialysis treatments, which are typically over three hour treatments, three days a week.


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Craning for Art

His folding process didn’t start with a hundred crease lines. Folding the silky, thin papers have been a hobby of Brammer’s since he began folding paper airplanes in his fourth grade class.


Students work on pushups and situps as part of their weekly sessions and monthly physical fitness test. The test consists of the two workouts as well as running miles, and scores a minimum of 180.
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Behind the Uniform

Molly Martin sat nervously at the table. She had to make an announcement to her parents that she going to change a big part of her future. “Mom and Dad, I have something that I want to talk to you about,” she said.



Dils flame polishes his glass piece. Dils said he works in the studio for approximately 15 to 20 hours a week.
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Melting the Mold

Just as the glass appeared to harden, Alex Dils dipped it into a nearby oven before returning to his workbench.



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More Zzz’s Please

 When you pile homework on top of extra-curricular activities on top of a side job, getting your full amount of Z’s might be pushed to the bottom of your to-do list. And when you do finally decide to take a snooze, maybe you lie awake for hours, unable to turn your busy brain off. So, what then?



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Trashed

“I don’t know too much about the infrastructure of the recycling, or how well [Muncie] works with Ball State,” said Dan Martens, a Ball State senior. “I would assume that they try to do their best, given the number of students.”


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Walking Disaster

A recent study by Ohio State University shows injuries involving cellphone use while walking more than doubled between 2005 and 2010. People ages 16 to 25 are most at risk for cellphone related injuries while walking.


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​Behind the Haunted Forest

A raw lamb’s head rots on a butcher’s table and baby-dolls are pinned to trees. Werewolves jump from bushes and men with chainsaws come out from behind a wrecked car.


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Behind the Wheel

Happy to have ACDC’s “Back in Black” song booming from the radio, PDQ taxi owner Brad Luttrell jokingly tells one of his usual customers he’s going to snatch his Buffalo Wild Wings chicken because it smells so good wafting through his cab. It’s just another night in the life of a taxi driver.




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